Trent Richardson got call after call and text after text.
LSU fan after LSU fan. The Alabama running back’s number had been leaked.
Richardson, who played for the Crimson Tide from 2009 to 2011, thought back to 2011 during a recent episode of his podcast, “The Dynasty.“ That’s when those Tigers fans obtained his number during the open week prior to Alabama facing LSU.
“I’m getting 200 text messages, calls, everything out of nowhere,” Richardson said. “I’m laying in the bed. Of course, I’m dating somebody at the time. She was like, ‘Hey what’s going on? What you’ve got going on?’ It was one of those things like, I don’t know.’”
Richardson was trying to process all of the things he was being sent.
“It was nothing but people mooning me,” Richardson said. “People showing me, like ‘Hey we’re going to whoop your ...’ I’m talking about they were doing anything and everything for two weeks straight.”
Then Alabama lost to LSU 9-6 in overtime at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
“After the game, the game of the century, after the game, they were like, ‘We respect you so much, you played a hell of a game, did this and that,’” Richardson said. “Gave me compliments.”
But the LSU fans didn’t forget his number.
“The next time we played them in the national championship, it started right back again,” Richardson said. “What’s crazy is, it started even longer because we had the bowl games. You had a month of people calling me, flicking me off, all types of crazy stuff.”
Then Alabama beat LSU 21-0.
Tigers fans had his number, but Richardson had the national championship trophy.
